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Can anyone elaborate on the difference between being allergic to beer and alcohol, versus just there normal negative effects? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel like some beers just have such a terrible negative affect on me, that profoundly surpasses what most people meany when they dicuss the negative effects.

Whenever I try and look into it, I just see the standard "top ten hangover symptoms" or whatever.

It's increasingly hard to find useful information on the Internet.

Is there a difference? Or are we all allergic to alcohol and just the symptoms vary?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The classic sign of an “allergy” is “alcohol flush reaction”, more common with certain Asian ancestry but could be anyone. It’s actually an inability to metabolize alcohol and can be much worse than just a red face, rather than an allergy. look that up and if it fits, you should avoid alcohol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction

(As an idiot in college I was always entertained by my roommate turning bright red and acting loopy on less than one beer. Now I know to be concerned)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I used to get that randomly - then I moved to Germany where they have a purity law for beer, and that went away.... but lately it is coming back... not in the same way - red face / feeling like I have a cold... but say, severe headaches, my guts are totally destroyed.

In fact, thinking about it - the beer I had was from Ireland so it didn't have the same purity laws.